1. On the changes to road and water transport in the railway age, see chapter 6 of Philip Bagwell, The Transport Revolution from 1770 (London: Batsford, 1974).
2. William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet: On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway’, lines 1–2; in William Wordsworth, Last Poems, 1821–1850, ed. Jared Curtis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 389–90. On the revaluation of walking
3. see: Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (London: Macmillan, 1997);
4. Anne Wallace, Walking, Literature and English Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993);
5. Jeffrey Robinson, The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989);